Long Itchington
Warwickshire

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
described Long Itchington like this:

ITCHINGTON (LONG), a village and a parish in Southam district, Warwick. The village stands on the river Ichene or Watergall, near the Warwick and Napton canal, 2 miles NNW of Southam and 2 S of Marton r. station; and has a post office under Rugby. The parish contains also the hamlets of Stoney-Thorpe and Bascote. ...

Acres, 4, 510. Real property, £8, 636. Pop. in 1851, 1, 216; in 1861, 1, 150. Houses, 271. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged to the Odingsells; passed through several hands to Dudley Earl of Leicester, who here entertained Queen Elizabeth on her way to Kenilworth; and belongs now to Lord Leigh and the Earl of Aylesford. The parish is a meet for the Warwickshire hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £210. Patron, J. D. Ellis, Esq., three turns, and Lord Leigh, one turn. The church is very an]cient; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with a tower; and was restored in 1866. There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists, a neat national school of 1855, and charities £31. St. Wulfstan was a native.

Long Itchington is now part of
Stratford on Avon
district.
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Stratford on Avon has changed over two centuries.
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How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth,
History of Long Itchington, in Stratford on Avon and Warwickshire | Map and description,
A Vision of Britain through Time.